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* [[Academy of Adventure]]: The main setting of the game, Naranja Academy or Uva Academy (Naranja in Scarlet, Uva in Violet), a school for Pokémon trainers! Naturally, given the nature of the franchise, there is a lot of field work for the curriculum, but there are classes to attend and tests to take, the same idea as Mini Games.
** The DLCs introduces their rival school, Blueberry Academy, a nautical academy in the waters of the Unova region. Features a massive underwater terrarium designed to mimic a number of climates, among other effects.
* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Played with. Some of the adult characters are actively in investigating bulling, though their effectiveness is dubious. Others are actively involved in covering up said bullying, or actively recruit students to do dangerous tasks they can’t or won’t do themselves.
* [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot]]: {{Spoiler|Averted and played straight, depending on the specific AI. The artificial professor is actually more ethical then the real deal it is modeled after and is unwilling to subject the region to catastrophe to see their dreams become real. The security AI is far less benevolent.}}
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* [[A Boy and His X|A boy and his mabosstiff]]: {{Spoiler|Arven and his mabossfiff}}
* [[Bribing Your Way to Victory]]: For competitive play, A number of powerful Pokémon are only catchable in the DLC. The main story is easily beatable in the base game, though the EXP charm obtained in the Kitikami DLC significantly increases the EXP earned by the party.
* [[The Bus Came Back]]:
* [[Character Customization]]: The Player Character can be customized
* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: The protagonist’s first encounter with the villain team (Team Star) occurs on the first day of classes where the two Grunts are bullying Penny. After you defeat the first (less experienced) Grunt, Nemona (whom they ''do not'' want to mess with) shows up and orders the second Grunt to battle the player, with the player allowed to use a Tera Orb to Terastallize their Pokemon. In effect, the Grunt’s punishment is acting as a reluctant [[Warmup Boss]].
* [[Dagwood Sandwich]]: Mostly subverted. Creative Mode lets you make a sandwich without using the premade recipes, but if you try to add too many ingredients, you'll usually just end up with a mess. Easier to do so in multi-player mode, however.
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* [[Intrepid Reporter]]: Pokémon paparazzi (and [[Quest Giver]]) Perrin from The Teal Mask DLC.
* [[Level Scaling]]: Averted. While players can challenge gyms in any order, the levels encountered do not scale. So if a player beelines for a late game area, they are outleveld. If a player levels up for such an area then returns to the early game, the battles don’t scale for the players new level, resulting in a series of [[Curb Stomp Battle]] if the player does not impose restrictions on themselves.
* [[Lost World]]: {{Spoiler|Area Zero, especially in the depths.}}
* [[Missing Mom]]: Arven’s mom in Scarlet is not involved in his life. She appears, but rarely acknowledges him as anything other than a convenience. {{Spoiler|Because she’s been dead for some time, and Arven is speaking with an AI copy.}}
* [[Mister Big]]: {{spoiler|The leader of Team Star is actually Penny, [[Shrinking Violet| a shy, mousy, introverted girl]] with a lot of self-esteem issues. Not even the other members of Team Star know this.}}
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* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: The Ruinous Treasures.
* [[Names to Trust Immediately]]: The Loyal Three {{spoiler|But you should ''not'' trust them.}}
* [[Nerf]]:
** Enforced. As with ''[[Pokémon Legends: Arceus]]'' and ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl|Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl]]'', Pokémon gets a separate moveset locked into that game when transferred into ''Scarlet and Violet'' instead of retaining its moves learned from previous games, effectively making transferring moves from previous generations impossible. This meant that previous moves that isn't available as a TM in ''Scarlet and Violet'', such as Defog, had their distribution significantly reduced. This also led to scenarios such as Chansey can't have Heal Bell, when it used to learn the move through breeding in previous games.
** Most recovery moves had their PP reduced from 10 to 5.
** Following Cinderace's success in competitive formats, Protean and Libero now only change the user's type once per switch-in in ''Scarlet and Violet''.
** Zacian and Zamazenta's stats have been reduced, with both of their Hero of Many Battles formes having their Attack stat drop to 120; Crowned Zacian has its Attack stat reduced by an additional 10 points to 150 while Crowned Zamazenta has both its defenses reduced by 5 points each. Additionally, Intrepid Sword and Dauntless Shield only activate once per battle when these abilities didn't have any restrictions in [[Pokémon Sword and Shield]].
** Another Pokémon that got its stats nerfed is Cresselia, with both its defenses reduced by 5 points each in ''Scarlet and Violet''.
** Regieleki's Transistor now only boosts its attacking stat when using Electric-type attacks by 33% instead of 50%. Unlike with Zacian and Zamazenta, Regidrago's Dragon's Maw is left unchanged.
** When Toxic and Scald returned as TM moves in ''The Teal Mask'' DLC, their distribution is more limited than before. Only Poison-types or those with heavy associate with it, such as Gliscor and Umbreon, can learn Toxic when almost every Pokémon could learn it before ''[[Pokémon Sword and Shield]]''. Meanwhile, only a handful of Water-types can learn Scald through TM in ''Scarlet and Violet'', such as Milotic and Slowking.
** While Knock Off actually did see several Pokémon being able to learn it through TM that didn't beforehand, like Tyranitar and Infernape. A few of them have lost access to Knock Off, notably Bisharp and Toxapex.
* [[Non-Human Sidekick]]: The box legendary to the player character.
* [[Olympus Mons]]:
** Koraidon and Miraidon serve as the mascot Legendary for ''Scarlet and Violet'' depending on the versions. For the majority of the game, they can't be used for battle and function as living vehicles until the climax, {{spoiler|in which they're up against in a [[Mirror Match]] by the AI Professor.}}
** A more straightforward example is the Treasures of Ruin quartet, which consists of Wo-Chien, Chien-Pao, Ting-Lu, and Chi-Yu. In the distant past, they used to be treasures until the king's greed awakened them to Pokémon, bringing disasters in the process.
* [[Organic Technology]]: {{spoiler| Each member of Team Star has a special Pokemon called a [[Unique Enemy| "Starmobile"]], which is (according to Ortega, who invented it) a vehicle that uses a Revavroom as the main engine, two Varoom as secondary engines and a Charcadet as a fuel source; the Type is different for each, in accordance to each Trainer's theme. Whether this counts as a true Pokemon at all is debatable, but in any event, [[My Rules Are Not Your Rules| the player cannot obtain one]].}}
* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: Director Clavell when disguised as Clive.
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* [[Salaryman]]: Larry is a salaryman who works multiple jobs, is overworked, and dresses the part.
* [[Satiating Sandwich]]: This Trope is a major part of [[Gameplay and Story Segregation| both Gameplay]] [[Inverted Trope| and Story]]. In an early scene, the protagonist befriends an injured Legendary Pokemon (either Koraidon or Miraidon depending on the game) by giving it their sandwich, gaining it as an [[Androcles' Lion]] for an ally who accompanies the player, serving as a mount as they explore Paldea region together. Later in the game, each time the player defeats one of the Pokemon Titans, Arven will use the recovered Herba Mystica to make a new sandwich that the player can feed to Koraidon /Miraidon to improve its skills, enabling access to places that were previously unreachable. Also when the player makes camp, they can make their own sandwiches from ingredients bought in stores, each successful recipe granting bonuses for Catching, Training, Battling, finding rares, and so on.
* [[Sentient Vehicle]]: "Sentient" is debatable, much like Pokémon in general, but Cyclizar is a Pokémon that can be ridden by its trainer the way one would ride a motorcycle, and according to PokéDex lore, humans in the Paldea region have been using them this way for 10,000 years; there is a reason Pokémon Centers in this game look like gas stations. Additional lore claims a rider's body heat "lifts the Pokémon's spirit", suggesting a semi-symbiotic relationship with humans. It is strongly hinted that Legendary Pokémon Koraidon and Miraidon (who Cyclizar vaguely resembles and are used as mounts by the protagonist) are related to Cyclizar, but Cyclizar doesn't seem to have a way to evolve into either (it doesn't evolve at all) and
* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: The Ruinous Treasures. The stories don’t stop the history teacher from prodding their student, the player, to break their seals and release them.
* [[Spot the Impostor]]: Both Ditto and Zorua hide among wild Pokemon by using their abilities to shapeshift. However, one way to tell which is which is out of character behavior. For example Persian, Primeape, and Vigoroth (who all share the same habitat as the two imposters) are aggressive Pokemon who will always attack the trainer. Zorua, however, is a shy Pokemon who usually flees from the trainer, while Ditto is a curious one who often stares quizzically at the trainer. Thus, should any of these aggressive Pokemon act like this, it is likely the "imposter" Pokemon in disguise.
* [[Stable Time Loop]]: {{Spoiler|The professor meets the player character in the postgame, with the encounter influencing earlier events.}}
* [[Super Mode]]: Terastallization functions as one for every Pokémon by changing its type to its Tera Type and receiving a power boost (x1.5 power boost, x2 if it matches one of its original types) in addition to the moves that already receive STAB prior to Terastallize. Unlike Dynamax from ''[[Pokémon Sword and Shield]]'', Terastallization doesn't have a turn limit. In the main game, recharging is required by visiting a Pokémon Center after Terrastallizing once. {{Spoiler|Capturing Terapagos in ''The Indigo Disk'' will remove this limitation.}}
* [[Turtle Power]]: {{spoiler| Terapagos, the mascot Legendary of the The Indigo Disk DLC, and an [[Adorable Abomination]].}}
* [[Villain with Good Publicity]]: {{Spoiler|The Loyal Three are exalted in Kitikami, when really they were thieves.}}
* [[Virtual Paper Doll]]: Some outfit selection is possible, though is less variety for clothing options then in prior games.
* [[Weakened by the Light]]: In "The Teal Mask" DLC, Perrin wants the player to help her find the Blood Moon Beast so she can take its picture - this larger-than-average Ursaluna seems to hate light, being completely nocturnal and only appearing on foggy, overcast nights. Which causes a problem when you find it, as [[Oh Crap| Perrin uses a camera with a flash]]... Meaning you'd [[Bears are Bad News| best come ready for a Pokemon battle against an angry Ursaluna here.]]
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: {{Spoiler|The post game set in Kitikami is centered around mochi obsessed “zombies”.}}
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